Christian Kist finished off his remarkable Lakeside debut, by beating Tony O'Shea to take the BDO world title in dramatic fashion.
Kist, a road worker from Netherlands and entrant as a qualifier, took to the earliest rounds of the tournament as a rank outsider.
However, the 25-year-old overcame O'Shea 7-5 in a thrilling final to pocket the £100,000 prize, reported to be 50 times his career earnings to date.
"I was 6-2 in front and there was no problem and then Tony came back and the nerves came," Kist revealed to BBC Sport shortly after his enthralling vic
tory.
During the course of the BDO tournament, Kist tore up the formbook, beating sixth seed and countryman Jan Dekker, Belgian Geert De Vos, England's Alan Norris and two-time world champion Ted Hankey.
O'Shea, known in darts circles as "The Silverback", who lost 7-6 in a thrilling final against Ted Hankey in 2009, started the better of the two players, striding off in the first three legs to take the first set as Kist struggled to hit the trebles.
However, with the Dutchman settled after the initial exchanges, he won the next two sets and took the lead in the best-of-13 match.
The Dutchman edged to within two legs of the title but O'Shea, who knocked out defending champion Martin Adams in the quarter-finals, stopped the rot by clawing back a set to reduce the deficit to three.
When O'Shea lost the penultimate leg after miscounting his checkout on 112, Kist seized back the momentum and hit the double 16 at the second time of asking for victory.
